From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, rmanohar@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:13:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473927224.4423.37.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914071832.11465-1-rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 12:48 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Based on consecutive msdu failures, mac80211 triggers CQM packet-loss
> mechanism. Drivers like ath10k that have its own connection
> monitoring
> algorithm, offloaded to firmware for triggering station kickout. In
> case
> of station kickout, driver will report low ack status by mac80211 API
> (ieee80211_report_low_ack).
>
> This flag will enable the driver to completely rely on firmware
> events
> for station kickout and bypass mac80211 packet loss mechanism.
>
applied.
johannes
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2016-09-14 7:18 [PATCH v2] mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism Rajkumar Manoharan
2016-09-15 8:13 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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